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[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news -- Don Nickles
Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace... -- Bruno Kreisky
The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion. -- George Foreman
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. -- Scott Adams
I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside -- Ken Dodd
I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside. -- Ken Dodd
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime! -- Evel Knievel
Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward. -- Arlen Specter
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. -- Robert Breault
The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service. -- Dave Barry
Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts. -- Thomas Jefferson
Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue -- Roy Jenkins
The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere." -- David Frost
The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news. -- Leonard Lance
No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not. -- G. Edward Griffin
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart. -- David Rockefeller
Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances -- John James Cowperthwaite
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest shovel into his stores. -- James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde
The government doesn't want us to have weapons and yet, they have weapons. I think the biggest weapon they have is the IRS [Internal Revenue Service]. They can use taxes as a weapon, and the IRS code that you can't even figure it out. -- Glenn Beck
Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS's behavior "inappropriate. " No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense. -- George Will
When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes. -- Haley Barbour
I'm still one who says that we can get rid of the Internal Revenue Service if we would pass the fair tax, which is a tax on consumption rather than a tax on people's income, and move power back where the founders believed it should have been all along. -- Mike Huckabee
I can remember earning Ãº5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn't very entertaining for me. -- George Best
Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes. -- Thomas Sowell
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. -- Marco Rubio
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Thrift is of great revenue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some. -- Tom Wicker
If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough. -- Milton Friedman
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more. -- Allan H. Meltzer
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign, -- Alec Baldwin
Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing. -- Craig Ferguson
We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts -- Alan Keyes
personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble -- Don Marquis
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year. -- Chris Hedges
It is sometimes argued that one of the benefits of legalizing addictive drugs is that they could be taxed, and the government revenues enhanced. From this perspective, this would be the only valid case against legalization. -- Walter Block
The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition. -- Naomi Wolf
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government. -- John F. Kennedy
Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo. -- Eric Schmidt
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. -- Ron Paul
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue. -- Alexander Hamilton
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute. -- Thomas Paine
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing. -- Thomas Jefferson
A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer were found tomorrow, all US medical schools would teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment -- Barry Lynes
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded. -- Noah Webster
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. -- Jeff Bezos
Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those. -- Tim Cook
The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills. -- Matthew Yglesias
When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money spent on sanitation in the previous decade. -- Rose George
The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes. -- John Hoeven
At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster. -- Bernie Sanders
When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska. -- Sarah Palin
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. -- James Buchan
Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size. -- Yuri Milner
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. -- Arne Duncan
Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism. -- Bill Kurtis
Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer. -- Marc Ostrofsky
For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue. -- Solomon Ortiz
It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears. -- Mark Zandi
As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity. -- David Ricardo
Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons. -- James Surowiecki
Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies. -- Michael Moss
The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined. -- Kim Dotcom
Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll. -- Bud Selig
You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.' -- Rand Paul
Thrift is a great revenue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer. -- Billy Sunday
Don't optimize for conversions, optimize for revenue. -- Neil Patel
Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue. -- John Warren Kindt
A delay does not solve the revenue problem, -- Greg Nickels
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue. -- Seneca the Younger
Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue. -- Bill Gates
Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion. -- Murray Rothbard
I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue. -- Daymond John
Yeah, every team has to look to maximize their revenue. -- Dan Rooney
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business. -- Sophia Amoruso
People care about our digital revenue, not our print revenue. -- Dan Rosensweig
Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure. -- Ludwig von Mises
When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector. -- Jim Talent
Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government -- John Warren Kindt
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class. -- Linda McQuaig
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. -- Thomas Paine
Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source. -- Irving Azoff
Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue. -- Jim Fowler
All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different. -- Maurice Saatchi
I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream. -- Chuck D
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item. -- Sara Blakely
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue! -- William Shakespeare
One-time revenue spikes that aren't repeatable won't help you achieve consistent year-after-year growth. -- Aaron Ross
Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity. -- Patricia Aburdene
Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue. -- Leslie Charteris
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues. -- Jeff Zucker
Of course you want more revenue, but what good is it if it isn't predictable? -- Aaron Ross
The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury. -- Marcus Aurelius
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion. -- George P. Shultz
Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue. -- Mark Cuban
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation. -- Murray Rothbard
Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success. -- Anthony Foxx
We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington. -- Paul Ryan
When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself -- Seth Godin
It's hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill. -- Stewart Butterfield
Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever. -- Neil Cavuto
If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue. -- David Neeleman
That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams. -- Art Modell
We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them. -- Donald L. Carcieri
We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money. -- Carly Fiorina
LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context. -- Ryan Holmes
The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people. -- Edward C. Prescott
The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue. -- James Monroe
Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour. -- L. Jon Wertheim
In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers. -- Dave Goldberg
Product diversification comes into the mix as customers continue to strive for new revenue streams and a better USP. -- Eric Bell
The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle. -- Terry Porter
We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot, -- Sumner Redstone

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